Comic Frustrations
It's hard being a comic book geek when you've got a life to revolve it around. Balancing friends, family and a significant other leaves precious time to keep up with what's currently going on with the major comic book labels let me tell you. The geekier among you will probably be scandalised to hear that I've not even read a page of Infinite Crisis yet and I don't have the first clue what the whole House of M business is about.I don't get any comics on subscription because the things that come through my letter box look like they took a detour through an Iraqi outpost during a bombing raid. That leaved me with the only measure I could take to ease the pressure off picking up all my titles (which used to be a damn sight more in my earlier years let me tell you), a standing order. Which should really solve all my problems, a comic book store collects the comics I specify and every now and then I pop in a pay for them, they get guaranteed business and im guaranteed my comics. This has worked great for my US comics but my UK comics are now well and truly fucked, apparently even though they are on my list they sometimes get missed because they don't come to the store the same day as the US comics do. The staff in my comic book store are well and truly lazy bastards (I need to get a job there).
Ordering back issues is a pain in the ass. The phone line is only open for about 3 hours everyday, which of course coincide with my working hours not to mention it takes roughly half a fucking year for them to arrive through the post, which of course means they're subjected to the middle east treatment that all my post is victim to.
Just when I was seething (that's right, seething) about all that hassle, I found that some of my comics have been stolen! I left some overnight at work after buying them during my lunch hour, I was flipping through them when work commenced so tucked them away where I could retrieve them later. I foolishly forgot about them and this morning I found they're gone. The fucking cleaners must have had them away. The fuckers can't even read. I leave newspapers out almost every night but there still there collecting dust the next day but one sighting of something colorful and they've whipped it away. Fucking magpies.
I only want to read the adventures of Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Deadpool, the X-Men and Wolverine. It's not too much to hope for is it?
